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Freud in Oz : at the intersections of psychoanalysis and children's literature / Kenneth B. Kidd.
Van Pelt Library PR830.P74 K53 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kidd, Kenneth B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, English.
- Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, American.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Children in literature.
- Child psychology in literature.
- Psychology in literature.
- Young adult fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, English.
- Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, American.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 297 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Kidd (English, U. of Florida) offers a critical analysis of the roots of psychoanalysis, especially in the United States, in the study of children's literature. He explores the status of children's literature in classical psychoanalysis, and continues to focus on what he calls the classical tradition, which includes Jacques Lacan. These tales are analyzed as fantasies welling up from a cultural unconscious, but Kidd also argues that the child-analysis made narrative more important in the practice of psychoanalysis. Winnie the Pooh is explored as a source for pop-psychology, pop-philosophy, and the popularization of "the inner child." He engages in three case studies--Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz--and analyzes the emergence of picture-books in the 20th Century. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction: reopening the case of Peter Pan
- Kids, fairy tales, and the uses of enchantment
- Child analysis, play, and the golden age of Pooh
- Three case histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and OZ
- Maurice Sendak and picturebook psychology
- "A case history of us all": the adolescent novel before and after Salinger
- T is for trauma: the children's literature of atrocity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816675821
- 0816675821
- 9780816675838
- 081667583X
- OCLC:
- 719427947
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